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Can the White Rose blossom with Naved?

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With Naved-ul-Hasan's protracted move to Yorkshire finally settled, the White Rose will be hoping the Pakistan pace bowler will add extra impetus to an already impressive bowling line-up.

With South Africa speedstar Morne Morkel signed up for the first three months of the season, while Matthew Hoggard has been released for early county action by England, the season's prospects look very promising for captain Darren Gough.

Great expectation will be placed on all-rounder Adil Rashid to build on his impressive debut season. If the leg-spinner can match his performances from last season, he could be an England candidate sooner rather than later.

And with Jaccques Rudolph leading the batting ranks, 2008 could be a memorable year for Yorkshire.



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comment by U3238270

posted Apr 14, 2008

We are expecting Sayers to start fulfilling his promise this season. The batting line-up, with White, Rudolph and McGrath should be OK. This assumes, of course, that Vaughan continues to “bat” for England.

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posted Apr 14, 2008

I don't see an awful lot wrong with our batting line up. You can comment on it's weakness at the top but we have plenty of proven players. Rudolph is obviously the focal point but Anthony McGrath, Craig White and Michael Vaughan all have international experience. Gerard Brophy had a good season with the bat last year not to mention Bresnan and Rashid.

With 2 genuine all-rounders and Naved (and Morkel to start with) are no slouches with that bat coming in at No. 9.

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posted Apr 15, 2008

Rashid........ thats all i need to say, big things expected from this wonderkid! Monty look out! cider

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posted Apr 15, 2008

great bowling line up but we are at least 1 batsmen short. assuming vaughan is elsewhere we have only 4 proven batsmen incl the ageing white and the inexperienced sayers. brophy or rashid at 5 worries me. hopefully gale will come good but 1 or 2 injuries and we could struggle.

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posted Apr 17, 2008

are we going to allow michael vaughan pussyfoot around and "try" play himself into some sort of england form for our expense, may be being harsh but he does not seem to care much for club these days

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comment by U3238270

posted Apr 17, 2008

Vaughan shouldn’t even have been in the team currently playing for one of two possible reasons. Firstly, we should be playing a batsman who is likely to feature more during the season when Vaughan is on England duty. Secondly, in the unlikely event of Vaughan not being an ever present in the England team this season, in terms of commitment and desire, he is not good enough to play for Yorkshire.

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posted Apr 17, 2008

thats what i was saying DL

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posted Apr 19, 2008

Sayers
White
McGrath
Rudolph
Rashid
Bresnan
Brophy
Morkel
Naved
Gough
Kruis

argue with that! good year for yorkshire if we avoid injuries! and that team doesnt include Hoggy or Vaughan!

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comment by U3238270

posted Apr 19, 2008

In Vaughan’s case, let’s hope it never will, ToffeeSpoon. That’s not a bad line-up, but I’m not sure about Rashid at #5. I think I’d bolster the batting a bit with a Gale and leave out either Bresnan or Naved.

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comment by Toddy (U1259045)

posted Apr 24, 2008

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Sayers
White
McGrath
Rudolph
Rashid
Bresnan
Brophy
Morkel
Naved
Gough
Kruis

argue with that! good year for yorkshire if we avoid injuries! and that team doesnt include Hoggy or Vaughan!

One problem here you have 2 overseas players in the one team as Morkel and Naved can not play in in the same team!!! So the likes of Gale can come into the side to add more depth like he is showing in the current game.

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